ABC News In-depth | Inside one mother's fight to see Australia's veterans treated better | 7.30 @ABCNewsIndepth | Uploaded September 2024 | Updated October 2024, 1 day ago.
For five-and-a-half years, Julie-Ann Finney has been channelling her unfathomable grief over the loss of her son David into trying to change the way Australia treats its Defence veterans.

Trying to understand what happened to Royal Australian Navy petty officer David Finney, and becoming an activist for change who played a crucial role in the establishment of the Royal Commission into Defence and Veteran Suicide, has absorbed every day for Julie-Ann since David died.

She became one of a group of mothers who lobbied relentlessly for the royal commission, which will hand its final report to the Governor-General on Monday.

Chief political correspondent Laura Tingle reports.

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